Writer quotations: Leila Aboulela

This is what the author of the wonderful book The Kindness of Enemies had to say in the Guardian's Books That Made Me.

"I had to force myself to stop reading...It was gripping but that feast of heartbreak and cruelty was releasing toxins into my system. You can throw up a bad meal but what you read stays inside you forever."

Leila Aboulela, in the Guardian